Missouri State Representative Stacey Newman introduced a new bill Wednesday that would make it a felony to intentionally threaten a public school or building.

The bill comes less than a week after a KSDK-TV (Channel 5) hidden camera investigation into school security that put Kirkwood High School on lockdown for 40 minutes, terrifying parents, teachers and students.

"As a parent in our climate of incessant school shootings, I am beyond angry a local television station tricked a school purely for a ratings bump," Newman blogs on the Huffington Post. "I would even call it inhumane."

KSDK sent five reporters with hidden cameras to five public schools to test security. Only at Kirkwood was the reporter able to access classrooms and the cafeteria without being stopped or questioned.

When the still-unnamed reporter decided he had the scoop he needed, he left the campus without notifying the school, leading to a frantic, hour-long manhunt. School officials guessed he was with KSDK because of the outgoing message on his cell phone, but KSDK did not admit they sent the reporter until after the lockdown had begun.